European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 25, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes March 1985 Moscow Havana rift reported Washington up cuban president Fidel Cas Tro is upset with Moscow Lack of response to president reagans pressure on leading to a serious Strain Between the two the Washington Post reported quoting East european the newspaper said the cuban leaders frustration Over the Kremlin inaction was the reason Castro did not attend the funeral of president Konstantin Chernenko earlier this the sources said Castro was angered by Moscow conciliatory approach to the United especially in Light of president reagans recent Public criticism of Nicara guas leftist the presidents criticism included a statement at a news conference in called for the removal of the sandinista from Castro not Only did not attend the Chernenko but also failed to sign the condolence Book at the soviet embassy in he attended the funerals of Chernenko Leonid Brezhnev and Yuri castros commitment to the sandinista is far More ideological than the Post the soviets Are also reluctant to project their Power so far from their the Post the sources told the Post that Castro was profoundly annoyed with Chernenko last March when the soviet Leader refused to allow a soviet naval flotilla to approach nicaraguan the flotilla was on its Way to but one of the ships was damaged by a mine and turned Castro interpreted the incident As a sign Moscow would not intervene if the United states became formally involved in military action in the report former hew chief Harris Dies Patricia Harris file photo Washington up Patricia Secretary of education and welfare in the Carter died Early saturday at George Washington University medical a Hospital spokeswoman she was Harris was admitted to the Hospital on wednes spokeswoman Clare Fiore Fiore declined to disclose the cause of a native of was named hew Secretary by president Carter in december when hew was split into the department of education and the department of health and human services in Harris stayed on at has As its first upon her Harris said she deplored suggestions that agencies dealing with the immedi ate needs of individual human beings Are agencies which somehow seem to rank below those which Are concerned with More arcane problems of monetary Active in democratic politics and a civil rights Harris also served As ambassador to Luxembourg from 1965 to 1967 and became an alter Nate Delegate to the United nations in stateside pass Dover employee wins from phone company a a new England Telephone employee who was passed Over for promotions despite High performance ratings has been awarded in an age discrimination Milton of who filed suit against the company in was awarded for financial for emotional distress and in Connors claimed he was not promoted in 1974 from his level two management Job in Boston to a level three Job because of his he retired from the company in december 1982 after 45 years of service interrupted by a army stint in world War a company spokesman declined comment because the Case May be according to testimony at the jury trial before judge Roger the company gave Connors High performance ratings Between 1964 and but rated him As not promotable in when he was younger employees received promotions Between 1964 and the testimony Oil Wheeler dealer Pickens picks up million Bonus Dallas a Pone chairman of Mesa has been Given a Bonus or million Over the next four years for waging the unsuccessful but highly profitable takeover Battles with Gulf Oil and Phillips a Mesa Petroleum official David chief financial officer for said the Money will come from a compensation Pool created in 1984 after Mesa realized a million pretax profit from its hostile bid for Gulf the Pool will also get funds from the million Mesa is expected to get in the settlement of its takeover bid for Batchelder Batchelder said the Bonus Pool is comprised of be tween percent and 5 percent of the gain that Mesa investor groups made on the Pickens Bonus will include million from the Gulf investment and million from the Phillips Batchelder blood Banks begin use of aids screening fest Washington a blood Banks across the nation have begun using a screening test designed to protect blood supplies from contamination by the virus suspected of causing As the first results show just a few positive readings among thousands of blood samples health officials blame at least 113 cases of acquired immune deficiency syndrome on transfused the disease destroys the immune leaving the body vulnerable to other and is most common among male homosexuals and abusers of inject Able nearly half the cases of aids reported in this country have been Secretary of health and human services Margaret heckler has said the which detects antibodies to the virus assures a higher level of safety for our nations blood but the test is not completely with false negative readings reported in a Small percentage of cases where people actually carry the critics have charged that some people in High risk groups will have their blood tested because they suspect they May have and that some of their blood will slip through the test and further contaminate the blood in an Effort to discourage people from donating blood just to learn their test most blood Banks say they will delay notifying donors with positive that policy has brought protests in Detroit and threats of picketing in new but blood Bank officials say most Gay rights groups have been either ambivalent about or supportive of the testing while waiting for Sepa rate diagnostic screenings to be set up in Many the test Doest Tell a person whether they have aids or this is not a diagnostic said red Cross spokeswoman Christine Gray in where testing on donated blood began March what the approved by the Federal food and drug administration Early this does show is that a donor has been exposed to the it Viii believed to cause and has developed antibodies to scientists have not determined what percentage of people with the antibodies May eventually show symptoms of when a test is officials the Sample is re tested and the blood is its just another safeguarding said Diane Gil a spokeswoman for the Southeastern Pennsylvania chapter of the american red whose technicians were trained to perform the test last the screenings of donations Are under Way at blood Banks in such cities As san new Oklahoma City and los few results have been in three out of More than units of blood donated tested Posi Tive one out of in new Orleans on fifth of 1 per cent of samples in Atlanta and Between percent and 1 percent in san there were no positive results after thousands of tests in Detroit and Oklahoma reportedly training foreign Antiterrorist squads Washington a military and intelligence personnel Are training Antiterrorist squads in foreign coun tries As part of a stepped up policy to combat the Washington Post reported in its sunday the unpublicized which involves the Green berets and the Aims to help Allied governments Han dle hostage taking plane hijackings and other terrorist the newspaper the Antiterrorist units Are patterned after the military elite strike Force which carried out the unsuccessful 1980 Mission to Rescue american hostages in the Post quoting unidentified the Post said training has been conducted in about a dozen including Leb anon and under the personnel have advised foreign governments when they were wrestling with terrorist Inci the Post the newspaper cited a sudanese hostage incident and an air plane hijacking in Thailand As instances of assistance in the program is being kept the Post quoted officials As because individual countries May not want it known they Are receiving such sensitive Aid or believe publicity could tip off the Post said it is unclear when the Antiterrorist train ing began possibly As Long As 10 years but the newspaper said the program has picked up under the Rea Gan the Post said Green berets trained a 40man honduran squad called the Urban operations it said the troops posed As wore jeans and avoided other american military personnel stationed in rep Michael chairman of a House subcommittee on Western hemisphere was quoted As laying Congress should look into the honduran training in Light of the Cias role in the Covert War by Honduras based nicaraguan rebels against the sandinista the Antiterrorist training program demonstrates a direct relationship Between military activities in Hon Duras and those of the and it raises a serious ques Tion of whether there is other military involvement in other Cia operations in Barnes said through a officials said the appropriate House and Senate committees were notified in Advance of the Antiterrorist activities and that the operation was kept separate from Cia work on behalf of the nicaraguan called con we trained their honduran people to Rescue hostages from buildings and hijacked one government official told the it has nothing to do with training weve done this All quoting an unnamed the Post said the training in Honduras included sniper Shotgun House scuba Clearing air planes and combat intelligence